Printing up extra money - with no backing - used to be the sort of thing only counterfeiters did. Now it is done by the central bankers and Treasury Secretaries themselves. They don't apologize for it. They don't hang their heads and contemplate blowing their brains out. Instead, they're proud of it... announcing that they 'saved civilization,' or some such claptrap.
Bill BonnerNo man bears more responsibility for the present worldwide financial crisis and coming depression than Alan Greenspan.
Bill BonnerThe economic freedom that made the U.S. economy the leader of the world has given way toa rigged, controlled, and regulated economy.
Bill BonnerBoth the liberal and the conservative are in agreement: it is all very well to let the people alone, but only if they do what you want them to do.
Bill BonnerRemember, government is not an enlightened organization designed to promote public welfare. It is barbaric, uncivilized forceโฆmilitary and police power put to the service of the insiders who control it. Yes, there are constraints on the way the insiders use their power. There are โchecks and balances,โ built into the constitution, for example. And there are cultural norms and traditional prohibitions. But eventually, the norms and traditions wear off, like painkillers. And then, the pain of raw government begins again.
Bill BonnerNorman Rockwell spent his career painting pictures that helped people understand their own feelings...pictures that enriched their own experiences and celebrated their own lives. But the art establishment branded him an 'illustrator', a sentimental one at that. Real artists, they said were doing art for art's sake, not for the sake of the bourgeois public. Real artists were putting swiggles, smears or daubs of paint on the canvas. They were doing 'innovative' and 'creative' work. If they were hideous and grotesque; we know that's what life really is!
Bill Bonner